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"Bush administration's abuse of FISA warrants linked to Sibel Edmonds case
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Sun Feb 25th, 2007 at 05:20:11 PM EST
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is continuing her fight to expose what she claims is serious corruption within the Bush administration. To date, the Bush administration has used the state-secrets privilege claim to silence Edmonds and prevent her from presenting evidence in the courts or Congress.
However, it now appears Edmonds has found a way to beat the state-secrets gag order.
In the coming weeks, insiders tell Narco News, Edmonds and the group she founded, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, will be coming forward with hard evidence, obtained legally from third-party sources, demonstrating that the Bush administration has used FISA warrants to engage in unauthorized surveillance of members of Congress and their staffs, and allegedly the FISA court was not aware of this misuse of the warrants.
The federal FISA court (set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) issues surveillance warrants (usually to the FBI) that target foreign intelligence agents operating in the United States. However, the warrants are not supposed to be used to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens who are not acting illegally in the interest of a foreign power, such as members of Congress.
The fact that over the past five years, no known criminal investigations or indictments have resulted from the FISA warrants in question, Narco News sources claim, leads to the possibility that the information gathered through the warrants was being used by the Bush administration for political control and not law enforcement purposes.
These allegations go to the heart of Edmonds claims that she is being silenced for attempting to expose espionage-related activities (intercepted through wiretaps) that would reveal a trail of corruption within the Bush administration that is a threat to the national security of the country.
To date, the Department of Justice has used the broad powers of national security to prevent any public inquiry into Edmonds’ charges.
The new evidence soon to surface promises to expose the DOJ’s charade in the name of national security and also would raise serious questions about whether the Bush administration is improperly using FISA warrants to control members of Congress.
This is the information being provided to Narco News. The evidence itself is supposed to be released publicly in early March. So this represents little more than a heads up at this time. If the sources are correct, within the next few weeks, these new revelations should be the talk of the nation.
In anticipation of this new evidence being made public, behind the scenes an effort is already underway to get Congress to take up the Edmonds case through public hearings. A petition is currently being circulated for that very purpose, Narco News sources say.
So stay tuned to see if this all plays out as Narco News' sources predict -- and, assuming it does, if the mainstream press actually steps up to the plate to do its job in protecting the democracy."
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If true, this would be great.
While I try (in my FAX's to Rep's and Senator's) to bring out the fact that all the Bush/Gonzales-sponsored spying on legitimate American citizen's also applies to them, I doubt they've really let that sink in.
Solid proof of that would definitely make the point. Pete
